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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/1/13210589/5440160_orig.jpg] [accessed 7 January 2015]

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design element - patterns - zigzag

Scene Description: notice the stumps of the missing four outer colonnettes on the basin underbowl

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/1/13210589/5440160_orig.jpg] [accessed 7 January 2015]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: remains of the former late-18thC church, now incorporated into a housing project; the church was reputed by some to be " the ugliest in the county" [cf. FontNotes] -- the remains of the church -chiefly the west tower- were re-planned and developed as a private dwelling

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 January 2012 by Michael Dibb [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2849188] [accessed 5 April 2014]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: the modern church

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/ettington---holy-trinity.html] [accessed 17 January 2015]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Former Holy Trinity church. The ruins of the former parish church of the destroyed old village. Early 13th century (c1200) Norman and later"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 March 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1230827] [accessed 17 January 2015]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Shirley Chapel. Former south transept to Holy Trinity church, retained as a private chapel for the Shirley family of Ettington Park" -- the wall on the right is the south wall of old Holy Trinity

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 March 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1230869] [accessed 17 January 2015]

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: the early20thC church here

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 January 2012 by Michael Dibb [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2838655] [accessed 5 April 2014]

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view of church interior - monument

Scene Description: monument to the Earl and Countess Ferrers inside the Shirley mortuary chapel; the old font stands in front of the monument

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/1/13210589/5440160_orig.jpg] [accessed 7 January 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the modern church

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/ettington---holy-trinity.html] [accessed 17 January 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the modern font and cover of this church are visible on this side of the screen, on the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/ettington---holy-trinity.html] [accessed 17 January 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Holy Trinity ruins. View from the site of the altar to the ruins of Holy Trinity church at Ettington Park" -- the building to the left of the church wall is the Shirley mortuary chapel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 March 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1230839] [accessed 17 January 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: notice the stumps for the missing four outer colonnettes on the lower base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2014 by Rex Harris [www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/13423149025/in/pool-fontandpulpit/] [accessed 5 April 2014]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font of the modern church

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/ettington---holy-trinity.html] [accessed 17 January 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19132ETT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity [St. Nicholas and St. Thomas of Canterbury]

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity [St. Nicholas & St. Thomas of Canterbury [aka a Beckett]]

Church Location: Halford Road, Ettington, Warwickshire, West Midlands CV37 8BU

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located at the A422-A429 cross-roads, 9 km SE of Stratford-upon-Avon, about 20 km S of Warwick [approximately 70 m. E of the Ettington Park Hotel]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry [formerly in the Diocese of Worcester]

Historical Region: Hundred of Tremlow [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Kington

Font Location in Church: Inside the Shirley mortuary chapel

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century / 19th century, Late Romanesque / Victorian?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches [warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/], for his photographs of these churches and fonts

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are four entries for Ettington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2648/ettington/] [accessed 7 January 2015], one of which, in the lordship of Saswalo of Ettington at the time, mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 5, 1949) notes: "There was a priest at Ettington in 1086, [...] and it would seem that the church was built, or at least endowed, by Saswalo, the Domesday tenant of the manor. [....] His son Henry gave the church to Kenilworth Priory, his gift being confirmed by the overlord Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, c. 1150. [...] Papal confirmation of the priory's right to the church was obtained in 1229. [....] It was formally appropriated to the priory, with the reservation of a competent vicarage, by Bishop Silvester (1216–18), [...] but had apparently been served by a vicar earlier, as Hugh de Wells (who became Bishop of Lincoln in 1209) was admitted to the vicarage in 1204. [...] The ancient parish church, near the Hall, is now in ruins. Owing to its great distance (1¾ miles) from Upper Ettington, which had become, as it still remains, the principal centre of population, a vestry meeting held on 28 April 1794 [...] decided to erect a new church in that hamlet. An Act for that purpose [...] was obtained in the following year, and the church (St. Thomas à Becket), which had the reputation of being the ugliest in the county, was opened for worship in 1798. [...] This was in turn superseded by another new church, on a third site, erected in 1903, and was demolished in April, 1913, except for its tower, which still serves as a mortuary chapel. In the precinct of the present church stands the parochial War Memorial, a small granite cross bearing the names of 25 fallen. A chantry chapel existed at Upper Ettington in the Middle Ages; after the Dissolution it was converted into three houses for the poor, and as such it was serving in 1730; [...] it is now known as 'Rose Cottage'. [...] The parish church of HOLY TRINITY was built in 1903 in the 14th-century style and consists of a chancel, north tower and organ chamber, south vestry, and nave. The walls are of Bourton stone. There are four bells: three from the old church, two of 1595 by Edward Newcombe, the third of 1624 by R. Purdue of Bristol; and the tenor recast in 1803. [...] To the north-west of this church on the north side of the main road is the tower of the church of ST. THOMAS A BECKET, built in 1798 and demolished, excepting the tower, in 1913. [...] The remains of the ancient parish church, dedicated to the HOLY TRINITY, stand at Ettington Park, 1½ miles to the south-west. It consisted of a chancel, nave, north and south transepts, north aisle to the nave, and a west tower. The south transept, restored in 1825 by E. J. Shirley, and the west tower still stand. The remainder is more or less ruinous. [...] The chancel, nave, and tower, and probably the transepts, are all part of the church of 1206; the north aisle and perhaps the clearstory were added in the 14th century. The Shirley Famly Association site [www.shirleyassociation.com/NewShirleySite/NonMembers/England/ettington.html] [accessed 4 April 2014] notes: "Church at Ettington. The mention of a priest in the Domesday survey indicates the existence of a church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, by Saswallo, as recorded in the register of Kenilworth Priory. Some remains of this original church still exist at Ettington, including an ancient font and the tower of St. Nicholas. The mill mentioned in the Domesday Book as attached to this manor has within the last century been removed. St. Thomas A Bucket was adopted as the patron saint." The present font, located in the mortuary chapel of the Shirley family, consists of a round tapering basin decorated with a broad rope moulding at the upper rim and a zig-zag pattern below; raised on a plain cylindrical stem and a square lower base, it is missing four colonnettes that originally completed the support area; in the Romanesque style, but appears modern [NB: to be corroborated]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.138661, -1.612755

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 19.18″ N, 1° 36′ 45.92″ W

UTM: 30U 594938 5777368

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2014-04-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.